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Mainly transmitting from Finland and Sweden, the skweee movement has become one of the most unique sounds in recent electronic music. Like dubstep and drum & bass before it, it freely incorporates a multitude of other styles in its influences and even though on the surface it sounds like a synthesizer drenched hip hop offshoot, analogous to what artists like Joker, Rustie or Hudson Mohawke are doing, there’s a depth of character and emotion behind that squall of high pitched computerized funk. The name ‘skweee’ originates from the process of squeezing out a plethora of tweaked sounds from the same vintage synthesizer, producing a track and a soundworld with incredibly limited means and the noteworthy basslines (the groove of R&B is one of the scene’s calling cards) is definitely one of the main focuses there.

Outside of Scandinavia and outside of the continent’s core labels, Flogsta Danshall, Harmönia and Dodpop, the skweee scene has been represented by labels like Posionous Gases in America but in England, the sound has been supported fully by Brighton based duo, Donky Pitch. The party-turned-label started in 2009 with a spat of parties that joined the dots between the fluorescent skweee sounds of people like Randy Baracuda, with DJs like Alexander Nut and producers like Gemmy, Slugabed, Rekordah and Tokimonsta before it evolved in a label, and when the two arms started morphing together in 2010, it was only natural that the bright, liquid sounds of skweee be a part of that as well; which brings us to the enigmatic beatmaker, V.C….

Hailing from Helsinki, V.C. is about to launch The Trick EP through Donky Pitch, a slinky, sometimes pomp driven, slice of electronic funk, complete with a remarkably mysterious video for lead track ‘Superfluid.’ There’s little information online about V.C., so with his Donky Pitch out this week and a 7” available on the Spanish Lo-Fi Funk imprint it seemed like an ideal time to chat with this exciting producer about his influences, his production and the future…